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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!sgigate.sgi.com!mr.net!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!news.mathworks.com!newscaster-1.mcast.net!informatik.uni-bremen.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q: HP 5L: Any Problems with FreeBSD? Date: 15 Jun 1996 23:50:15 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4pvi7n$3s7@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4pst35$kb@pier2.bayarea.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.periphs.printers:41056 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:21310 mcnab@bayarea.net (David McNab) wrote: > I'm thinking of buying an HP LaserJet 5L. I > will use it to print PostScript documents (via > ghostscript) on my FreeBSD 2.1 system, and also > probably once a while with various MS-DOG and > Windows applications. > > I assume there are people out there who have > done the same -- any comments, favorable or > otherwise? Any problems printing PostScript > documents using ghostscript? Is memory size > an issue? The default ghostscript fonts are a bit ugly. ghostscript is definately a memory and CPU hog. Nevertheless, we run a similar solution at work, and it's going fine. After upgrading my workstation to 32 MB, i don't even notice the background job (despite of a full screen of various X11 apps, and an average swap allocation of 30...50 MB). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)